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Alternative database structures
2 points by pedalpete on Oct 31, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment
Hey Hackers,

My site www.HearWhere.com has started gaining more traction after being covered by TechRadar and TechCrunch earlier this week.

I'm noticing some lag in response time from mysql (nothing too huge at the moment, but it will only get larger as the database grows).

I'm considering moving to a different database, maybe BigTable from Google, though i know there are other alternatives as well.

I'm already using memcache to speed-up response times, but am wondering what the hacker community thinks about these non-relational databases.

Anybody using BigTable? or other recommendations? or should I just stick to optimizing mysql and move to a cluster or something?



I use BerkleyDB. Performance is really good. But note that it is Key-Val oriented.




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